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THE MERCATOR NETWORK LAUNCHES A NEW WEBSITE
March 2006 - The Mercator Network has launched a new website, located at http://www.mercator-central.org. Mercator is a network of three research and documentation centres specialised in the field of the regional and minority languages of the European Union. The objective is to provide objective information about the minority languages for both majority-language speakers and the minority themselves. The three centers have their own roles consisting of a centre for education at the Fryske Akademy in the Netherlands, a centre for legislation at the CIEMEN Foundation in Barcelona, Catalonia, and a centre for Media at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. As a network, the three centers have launched a website where the individual and common work can be found.
On individual work, each center has their own projects, publications and databases, which can be consulted. But as equally or more important is the common work that Mercator does as a network. For example, the Mercator network has since 2003 organized four international symposia on minority languages, which are intended to be a forum for networking, co-operation and presentation of research on minority languages in the EU. Another important common task of all three centers of the Mercator Network is the monthly publication of a common newsletter where one can be informed of the last news on regional and minority languages, the last publications of the centers, the last bibliography news and the acts the Mercator prepares. In the website one can suscribe to the newsletter and read all the numbers that have been published. The website also offers the latest news on minority languages and the agenda of all three centers. Finally, as the Mercator Network is supported by the European Commision, one can access from the website to all the EU initiatives regarding minority languages. The website exits only in english at the moment, but in the near future will be available in Catalan, Cymraeg, German, French and Frisk.
Related links ...
Mercator Network website
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